Unreliable focus actions in Floating layout
Hi, another PITA of floating windows handling in Xmonad: 1) set floating layout on an empty workspace (SimplestFloat or SimpleFloat) 2) launch two X window applications consecutively, like xterm and then gVim 3) try to change focus with a keyboard - Prev/Next (Mod-j or Mod-k by default) - FOCUSED WINDOWS ALWAYS POPS UP 4) now try to move a bit the top window with a mouse (Mod-MouseButton1 by default) 5) try to change focus again like in point 3) -> FOCUSED WINDOW DOES NOT POP UP AND STAYS BELLOW Is ths a bug, a feature or am I missing something here ?
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM, David Unric
another PITA of floating windows handling in Xmonad:
I will be charitable and call xmonad's floating layer support a hack. And I think this is the oldest open bug in the bug tracker. :( There is a module that tries to make things saner (XMonad.Layout.TrackFloatinghttp://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Layout-TrackFloating.htm...) but it has some issues. Unfortunately, this issue more or less demonstrates that the StackSet zipper at the heart of xmonad isn't quite good enough. (And things get worse if you try to add support for other EWMH layers.) -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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